+Zephyr Pellerin it's not necessary that items from the feed clog your stream. What I've done is add HN people to a separate circle and turned down the volume on that circle to zero. This way I still retain the input of the HN community on personalized search results but don't see any of their content in my stream.﻿

I still want to keep my subscribers trim if the majority of them are not posting, I thought hacker news would be most active on a platform like Google+, which is pretty much (at this point) a more technically oriented Facebook.

But the majority of people don't even look like they browse hacker news (maybe this is extreme silicon valley bias, but seriously, SEM people and hackers are very different folk who I generally think hang out in very different forums to talk 'shop')! Hacker News is a mixing pot, but these two groups seem diametrically opposed in their views on ways to make money on their most shallow examination.﻿

What I'm trying to get you guys to understand, is, it's already done, even if I remove you from hngp (which is now back up), you will still be in the circle, and circles don't work like how you would think, they store them locally, meaning if someone adds the circle, they have their OWN copy, so even if we remove you from the main circle, they're still in every single other persons circle so whenever someone is added to those, you get notified.﻿

Surely when the main circle is updated to exclude a user and somebody adds the updated circle, that user is no longer added/notified. That way you can simply ignore all existing users in the HN circle. +Luke Strickland you make it sound like you're notified if you're somebody is added to the same copy of a circle that you're currently in. That cannot be true.﻿